How to search for a file?

How to search for a file?

This is getting crazy. Having migrated from Windows 7 to Windows 10, I now find that I cannot search for files. I select "This PC", type "bpextract.dat" in the search box, press enter and nothing happens.

What am I doing wrong?

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first I set the taskbar search to show search icon[right click on the taskbar to do that] then when I search it says search the web next to the file name I put in ,but there is a my stuff icon near the bottom I click that it finds the file ,the same file that when I went to thispc ,and searched it found nothing

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first I set the taskbar search to show search icon[right click on the taskbar to do that] then when I search it says search the web next to the file name I put in ,but there is a my stuff icon near the bottom I click that it finds the file ,the same file that when I went to thispc ,and searched it found nothing

I tried that, and it found my files "bpextract.dat". So, just for the fun of it, I searched "This PC" as well, and that also found the files. It did, however, take about two minutes before any results appeared.

Yesterday, it wasn't switching from the "This PC" view to the (initially) blank search results. Today, it does.

I think that the windows search function is similar to office photocopiers... they have a chip inside that detects stress. When stress is detected, they activate the "jam paper" function.

Yesterday, the Windows search could detect that I was very stressed (something had just changed my password, and I was facing the loss of all my EFS encrypted files) so it decided to play up.

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